Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

About this book

From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned how to doctor and how to love. 

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.

These men were broken, unloved, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless compassion. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person and, as she treated these men, she learned about doctoring, about nurturing, about parenting, and about love.  

While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she becomes a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her life and her work, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice—all in the face of a jaded institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. 

Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health system, our justice system, and the prison system.

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Information

Publisher
Regan Arts.
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781941393437
eBook ISBN
9781942872306
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Psychiatry & Mental Health

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Authorā€™s Note
  3. Chapter 1: The Body Bag
  4. Chapter 2: Caught Between the Cracks
  5. Chapter 3: Stars Over Bellevue
  6. Chapter 4: Never What You Expect
  7. Chapter 5: The Tender and the Troubled
  8. Chapter 6: Mama Grizzly
  9. Chapter 7: Pushing the Limit
  10. Chapter 8: What Doesnā€™t Break You
  11. Chapter 9: The Listening Cure
  12. Chapter 10: A Motherā€™s Love
  13. Chapter 11: Even the Stars Can Fall
  14. Chapter 12: When Darkness Comes
  15. Chapter 13: Shelter the Broken
  16. Chapter 14: Unraveling
  17. Chapter 15: Burnout Strikes
  18. Chapter 16: Out of the Depths
  19. Chapter 17: Death and Birth
  20. Chapter 18: Reunion
  21. Chapter 19: Back to the Fire
  22. Chapter 20: Welcome Back
  23. Chapter 21: Under the Surface
  24. Chapter 22: Keeping Secrets
  25. Chapter 23: Compassion Is a Verb
  26. Chapter 24: When the Bridges Close
  27. Chapter 25: When the Lights Go Out
  28. Chapter 26: A Light In the Dark
  29. Chapter 27: Grace Will Lead
  30. Chapter 28: On the Island
  31. Chapter 29: Keeping Promises
  32. Chapter 30: Difficult Goodbye
  33. Chapter 31: Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
  34. Chapter 32: A Story Worth Telling
  35. Chapter 33: Higher Power
  36. Chapter 34: Ping-Pong Therapy
  37. Chapter 35: A Brighter Day
  38. Chapter 36: Beyond Bellevue
  39. Epilogue
  40. Acknowledgments
  41. About the Author
  42. Copyright

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